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Secure Development Life Cycle

Having a secure software development life cycle (SDLC) is crucial for organizations across all sectors,primarily due to the fact that it benefits the products and applications to be secure by design. Following weak or no security practices in any organization's software development lifecycle (SDLC) results in insecure and vulnerable code with relatively weak design and architecture.

Increased application security focus makes business sense, not just through avoiding incident costs, but also enabling the business value. It a known fact that resolving vulnerabilities later in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) leads to higher IT spend and business value opportunity cost.

Multiple challenges have been observed by various multiple organizations following Software Development Lifecycle without security as a denominator. Some of the quick facts include:

According to a security report from Microsoft, about 10% of vulnerabilities disclosed through October 2016 were targeted at Operating Systems (OS) and the other 90% of vulnerabilities targeted at the application layer

The 2016 IBM Internet Security Systems X-Force report found that only 11% of the all vulnerabilities disclosed in 2008 belong to the top five software vendors (Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, Apple, and Cisco)

The National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) estimates that code fixes performed after release can result in 30 times the cost of fixes performed during the design phase

In 2016BFSI and ecommerce industriesestimated the average cost of lost business per data breach for a company at $157, including lost business due to customer churn as a result of negative publicity

NIST estimated that 92% of all security incidents are due to software issues

Reseach by Cigitial shows that the causes of application security vulnerabilities are almost evenly divided between coding bugs and design flaws

Figure 1Secure Software Development Lifecycle

We have observed multiple instances wherein an application is assessed or audited post production to comply with national and state regulations and industry compliances. By this time, the effort involved for patching the application and rewriting the code repositories (introducing multiple security elements) increases drastically, breaking the existing application stack.

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) without any securityconsideration has:

Requirements which lack adequate risk perceptiveness

Business requirements missing information sensitivity knowledge

Development team not equipped with rights security tools and training for protecting against all the unacceptable risks to the organization.

Secure Architecture standards focus on designing securely from project initiation to avoid design flaws that are difficult and expensive to correct later. The Architecture review focus on identifying potential weakness in the design. Areas covered in the Secure Architecture Standards and Review include:

Iteration Testing (e.g., “brute force” techniques can be used for timing attacks or to bypass session/state management)

We understand multiple organizations have highly skilled developers with an exclusion of how to align security practices with their exclusive development skills. WeSecureApp primarily use this opportunity to train and infuscate the developers thought process towards key security area across application / infrastructure / middleware which they should consider towards prior initializing and developing the application.

On the go basis, along with secure coding practices churned towards industry applications and businesses – we would do a comprehensive threat modelling so to identify the key potential weak spots existing as per the design and with periodic secure code review and penetrating testing we would look forward to secure the application end to end.

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WeSecureApp is a new age cyber security company established by a group of highly motivated technologists. We offer unparalleled security consulting, auditing and testing services.

Fuelled by a passion to offer excellent solutions, quickly and efficiently, WeSecureApp was conceptualized and founded to identify and cure the pain points of the customers in the field of Security Testing.

WeSecureApp is a new age cyber security company established by a group of highly motivated technologists. We offer unparalleled security consulting, auditing and testing services.

Fuelled by a passion to offer excellent solutions, quickly and efficiently, WeSecureApp was conceptualized and founded to identify and cure the pain points of the customers in the field of Security Testing.